Linotype-machine.



PATENTBD MAY 3.1, 1904.

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v No. 761,289.

l UNITED STATES Patented May 31,1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

Tov MEEGENTHALER YORK.

LINOTYPE` COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW LINOTYPE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. "761,289, dated May 31, 1904.

Application filed February 23, T904.

To all whom t may concern: l

Be it known thatI, PHILIP T. DODGE, of Washington, Districtv of Columbia, have in- .vented anewl and usefulIm provementin Linotype-Machines, ofywhich the following is a specification. v l

The aim ofinyinventionis to,` produce a machine in which speedy change may, be effected from one font or set of matrices to another;

Tothsend it consists,essentially, inthe combination of a distributing mechanism and assembling mechanism with an intermediate frame carrying a plurality of magazines, either .ofi which may be removed independently an replaced by another,

The machine is susceptible of many modifications in detail; but I have illustrated herein a construction which will answer a good commercial purpose., l

The details of the distributing mechanism and the casting mechanism may be of any ordinary construction. In the drawings I have indi-cated a distributer of the ordinary Mergenthaler type.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the leading parts of a machine on my plan. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view through the base of one of the magazines. Fig. 4 is a similar view are arranged so that either one may bewithdrawn independently ofy the others and replaced by a magazine carrying a different font of matrices. These magazines may be of any suitable construction. `They are preferably made, as in the ordinary Mergenthaler Inachines, of two parallel plates rigidly connected, their inner faces being separated and grooved vertically to receive and guide the distributer.

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edges of the matrices, which stand in vertical rows therein, enteringV at the top from the distributer and leaving at the foot to pass to the assemblingor composing devices. In the present instance the distributer consists, as in the Mergenthaler machine, of a horizontal fixed bar D, overlying the magazines and having its lower edge of V form provided withA longitudinal teeth permuted in arrangement for the purpose of engaging teeth in the upf per notched ends of the matrices and sustainling them as they are carried along the bar until they arrive over the appropriate channels in the magazine. l f

E E represent the usual horizontal screws lying adjacent lto the distributer-bai` for the purpo'se'of carrying the matrices along the same The usual vor vother suitable devices will be employed to lift the matrices from the casting mechanism and deliver them one at a time to the distributer-bar and feedscrews. The-matrices falling from the distributer =passdirectly into the upper end of the magazine thereunder, and by moving the magazine-frame B forward and backward one of the contained magazines may be brought below and in operative relation to the distributer. In other words, the one distributer iscaused to deliver matrices into either of the several magazines by changing their relations. v

F represents the throat or racewayfixed in the main frame and located beneath the magazineA in position to receive matrices from the lower end of that magazine which is at the time in position to receive matrices from the This raceway consists of vertical plates and intermediate partitions, which v guide the matrices downward toward contracted lower end or mouth of the race-plate, through which the matrices pass in succession one at a time. Traveling belts Gr may be used at the side tofacilitate the downward travel of the matrices.

H represents the keyboard containingaseries of finger-keys, from which vertical rods or reeds I are extended upward to the escapements J of that magazine which is for the moment in position. These rods act on the escapements and throw them in one direction, and when the rods are released the spring K returns them to ltheir original positions. Each magazine is provided with its own set of eseapements. They should be covered or shielded, so that there will be no danger of their being injured when withdrawn from the frame. `If preferred, a single set of escapements may be mounted in the frame at the upper end of the throat or raceway and kept in connection with the operating-rods I, as

shown in Fig. 4:. In such ease the' matrices will be held in those magazines which are not in action by the fixed underlying plate M, which is slotted over the escapements and the raceway, but not elsewhere. This plate will sustain the matrices in those magazines which are not in action. I propose also to provide in some cases other means ot' holding the matrices within the magazines-such, for example, as a rod thrust through the lower end of the magazine, in the manner illustrated in my United States Patent No. 548,432.

In order to permitaneasy movement of the frame B, I propose to employ ball-bearings, as shown in the drawings, consisting simply of a series of balls interposed between the frames and the supporting rails orguides; but it is to be understood that this is not an essential feature of my construction.

What I claim isi 1. In a typographie machine, the combination of a mainframe, a second frame movable therein, to bring different magazines to the operative position, and a plurality of parallel independently-removable magazines seated in said second frame, substantially as shown and described, whereby change from one font or face to another, may be effected by shifting the secondary frame without changing the relation of the contained magazines to each other.

2. In combination with a iixed distributer, a relatively movable frame and a series oi .independently removable magazines in said frame.

3. In a typographie machine, in combina tion with a supporting-frame, a series of npright magazines adapted to be inserted and withdrawn horizontally in an endwise direction.

4t. In combination with a lixcd raccway or throat, a frame movable thereover, and a series of independently-removable magazines in said frame.

5. In a typographie machine, a series of npright magazines laterally movable to bring one or another to an operative position, said magazines removable independently in a horizontal direction.

6. In a typographie machine, a main frame and an assemblingmechanism therein, in combination with a series of upright matrix-maga zines, independently removable in an cndwise direction, and a magazine-support movable in the main frame transversely ol the magazines, to bring one o1' another into operative position.

7. In a typographie machine, the combina.- tion of a iixed distributer, a iixed assembling mechanism, an intermediate movable frame, and a series of matrix-magazines carried by themovable frame and individually removable therefrom,whereby one magazine may be continued in action while the others are being changed.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, this 27th day of January, 1904, in the presence of two attcsting witnesses.

PHILIP '.l DODGE.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. GEORGE, M. A. DRIFFILL. 

